Joseph Lupo

WVU Adv. Printmaking students participated in a multi-school print exchange titled “Wall 2 Wall”. My students, along with students from Carnegie Mellon University, West Liberty University, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, exchanged 4″x6″ prints that were collected and shown at each school. Thank you to former student, and current CMU and IUP employee Matt Forrest for organizing the exchange. It was great to see such a diverse range of work being traded amongst a large group of students. Some of the highlights are below:

WVU-Jordan Welsh

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This last Friday, a handful of printmaking students and I went to Pittsburgh to visit the Warhol Museum, Tugboat Printshop, and Artists Image Resource. It was a great (and long) day filled with some really amazing art and a lot of fun! It all started at the Warhol Museum and the exhibition “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years“. The show was amazing, it was like a contemporary art history class in the museum. We saw seminal works by John Baldassari, Hans Haacke, and Ed Ruscha just to name a few. Personally, Cory Arcangel’s “Super Mario Clouds” had a positive effect on my own ideas about my work, but I won’t get into that now. We also got to see one of our own printmakers, Brianna Saddler, working as an education intern there.

After the Warhol we had dinner at Max’s (of course) then we made our way to Tugboat Printshop to visit their open house.

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This year 14 of our MFA students and our two undergraduate interns will be showing their work in an exhibition titled “CONFLUENCE” at Artists Image Resource. This will be a really dynamic show that will feature the some of the best of what the WVU School of Art and Design Graduate Program has to offer. The show is free and will go up on March 18th and there will be a closing reception on April 5th from 7-9pm.

Pics of last year’s show can be seen here and here.

This semester, WVU Advanced Printmaking students participated in an international portfolio exchange with printmaking students from Zayed University in Dubai. Professor of Art Joshua Watts and I created the foundation for this portfolio at the 2012 SGC International conference in New Orleans. Almost exactly one year later, we couldn’t be happier with the results.

(Joshua’s hand-made folder with silkscreen title and nice/subtle embossment…)

This was such a learning experience for everyone involved. It is always interesting to see how artists from other cultures express themselves. Although I only have a few pictures of the portfolio, everyone really stepped it up and made some fantastic work. All images are 11″x15″ with an edition size of 40 prints. The entire portfolio will be shown in the library at Zayed University, a copy will go into their printmaking program print archives and a copy will go into the WVU print archives. We hope to find a space in Morgantown to exhibit as well. Thank you so much to Joshua and his students for participating in this wonderful portfolio with us.

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